Airborne: A Community Event to Celebrate Birds

Saturday, September 26th, 1-4pm PDT.

Airborne will celebrate birdlife through photography, music, poetry, costume, kite-making, and scientific discussion. A slideshow of stunning photographs will highlight a knowledgeable talk on bird migration, and the beauty and diversity of local and migrating birds will be highlighted through the arts. Participants will be invited to join in on the creativity by crafting colourful bird kites.

Time will be planned so everyone can share stories and information about their common interest in birds. Making kites decorated with bird images will give participants a chance to identify with birds and the sensation of flight, have fun and be creative while getting to know each other better. For birdlovers of all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Admission is free. This is a drop-in group, however pre-registration is highly recommended. 

Big thank you to the Osprey Foundation, who funded this event!

Facilitators 

Elizabeth Cunningham, MA, is an Expressive Arts Therapist, writer and teacher. After a twenty-five-year career teaching, specializing in music and art, Elizabeth studied art therapy at Arscura, Toronto, The Create Institute, Toronto, and the European Graduate School, Switzerland. She has published three books of poetry and photography with Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, and Waterside Arts, Toronto. Elizabeth’s Master’s degree thesis, Playing with the Space of Potential, focusses on parent/child dyads, a specialty in her Expressive Arts therapy practice.

Elizabeth is excited to bring her life-long love of birds to KATI with Airborne, a multi-modal presentation and workshop comprising photography, music, poetry, costume and kitemaking. 

Nature photographer Cynthia Fraser loves being outside and enjoys photographing wildlife and humans in nature. She works with environmental and social nonprofits focusing on human rights, community engagement, trauma recovery, wildlife and watershed protection. She has degrees in psychology, political science and fine art from University of Toronto and is thrilled to be facilitating this fun and engaging workshop with Elizabeth!